rouvenster
January 19th, 2018, 11:45 PM
Hi,
So I have this Acer aspire 5610 from 2006 with 2,5gb RAM on it and I was able to run windows 10 on it but as you can guess everything was really laggy and slow. So I brought this SanDisk SSD and wanted to install Ubuntu on it and wipe out windows.
HERE IS THE PROBLEM : I didn't have anywhere to plug sata device on that old thing, so I found on eBay one of those caddy bay adapter in the shape of a DVD device where you are supposed to plug your SSD and shove the whole thing in place of the DVD player.
But mine is kind of special because it was 2006 and sata was not popular yet so my DVD player is an "ATAPI" device, and my adapter is basically SATA to "ATAPI/IDE".
I installed everything and checked on windows, bingo! It shows the ssd, even ran some speed test and acknowledged the speed gain (around 2-3 times faster than my normal old HDD).
HERE IS WHERE I AM STUCK : can't install Ubuntu. The installer does show the SSD but when trying to part it or access it with gparted it drop an error code input/output error. Tried updating the bios, tried install with another USB key, on another USB plug on the laptop, with Lubuntu instead of Ubuntu and even tried all the F6 special installation modes but nothing.
I have a clue though, since I have the EXACT SAME ERROR CODES than this guy :
https://forums.techguy.org/threads/solved-input-output-error-during-read-on-dev-sda-on-installing-ubuntu-10-04.977983/
But I lack similar stuff on my bios. Old Phoenix bios have no options like those :-(.
Any ideas?
Thanks guys
So I have this Acer aspire 5610 from 2006 with 2,5gb RAM on it and I was able to run windows 10 on it but as you can guess everything was really laggy and slow. So I brought this SanDisk SSD and wanted to install Ubuntu on it and wipe out windows.
HERE IS THE PROBLEM : I didn't have anywhere to plug sata device on that old thing, so I found on eBay one of those caddy bay adapter in the shape of a DVD device where you are supposed to plug your SSD and shove the whole thing in place of the DVD player.
But mine is kind of special because it was 2006 and sata was not popular yet so my DVD player is an "ATAPI" device, and my adapter is basically SATA to "ATAPI/IDE".
I installed everything and checked on windows, bingo! It shows the ssd, even ran some speed test and acknowledged the speed gain (around 2-3 times faster than my normal old HDD).
HERE IS WHERE I AM STUCK : can't install Ubuntu. The installer does show the SSD but when trying to part it or access it with gparted it drop an error code input/output error. Tried updating the bios, tried install with another USB key, on another USB plug on the laptop, with Lubuntu instead of Ubuntu and even tried all the F6 special installation modes but nothing.
I have a clue though, since I have the EXACT SAME ERROR CODES than this guy :
https://forums.techguy.org/threads/solved-input-output-error-during-read-on-dev-sda-on-installing-ubuntu-10-04.977983/
But I lack similar stuff on my bios. Old Phoenix bios have no options like those :-(.
Any ideas?
Thanks guys